The Best Way for Children to Learn a Second Language.

Our Team

Our Team

Our quality instructors deliver fun and vibrant Spanish language classes leveraging thoughtful activities which peaks the child’s interest, thereby motivating them to learn new words. In some cases, parents have told us that children will proactively use a Spanish word to describe a color, animal, or identify something around the house. This is validation for the parent that their child is absorbing the lessons and drives numerous recommendations for our program.

Listed below are our Instructors who make Young Spanish the best language learning program in the Midwest.

La Señora Martha Martin is from El Tigre, Venezuela. After high school, she attended Centro De Estudios Universitarios in Monterrey Mexico and obtained her Bachelor’s degree of science in psychology. Shortly after graduation she worked as an instructor of interpersonal communication and philosophy at Colegio Labastida in Monterrey Mexico before returning to Venezuela. In Venezuela, she continued her career in education and taught elementary age curriculum at private and public schools. She moved to Kansas City in 2005 with her husband, and has worked at several non-profit organization as a social worker and interventionist. Around the beginning of 2011, she realized how much she missed the classroom and decided to make a return to teaching and has been a full time Spanish teacher at a Montessori school in Missouri.

La Señora Martha is married and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

La Señora Angie Stratton is from the St. Louis area. Growing up with a mother and aunt who were both Spanish teachers inspired her interest in the language at an early age. After two years of high school Spanish she had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica and it reinforced the desire and value of continuing to study the language. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now MS&T) with a B.S. in Architectural Engineering and a minor in Spanish, and during those years was able to take several trips to Mexico, return to Costa Rica for a summer, and tutor college level Spanish students. Her passion to work with people instead of computer screens gradually led her away from structural engineering and into teaching. Six months in Portuguese speaking Mozambique in 2009 deepened her desire to help others build relationships cross-culturally through language learning. She taught Spanish full-time at Creme de la Creme preschool in 2010.

Senora Angie is married and lives in Kansas City.

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La Señorita﻿ Cate Bowler is from West Monroe, Louisiana. She is the third generation of her family to be a teacher. In middle school, Cate began studying Spanish and discovered that she had a passion for learning Spanish and teaching it to others. Her deep rooted love for children inspired her to channel her natural enthusiasm and energy into a classroom setting. While taking Spanish classes all throughout high school, she was asked to tutor the other high school students and also had opportunities to travel to Mexico and Peru. In the summer of 2011, she participated in a short foreign exchange program in Spain where she learned about the Spanish culture and did some translating in informal situations. Cate graduated from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri in May of 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Spanish. She is state certified to teach Spanish to children in grades Kindergarten - 9th grade.

Senora Cate Bowler lives in Kansas City.

La Señora Angela Canentis from El Paso, Texas, where she grew up in a bilingual family. Her youth was spent in Southern California, where Spanish was as prevalent in the schools as English. Later, she moved to Kansas City with a degree in Visual Design and Merchandising. She began her career working on the Creative side for Hallmark Cards, Incorporated. For 13 years, Angela spent her time at Hallmark conceptualizing how to captivate and engage the audience/consumer. Fast forward and now Angela is a mother of 3 children. Having realized the invaluable importance of learning a second language at an early age, she began substitute teaching Spanish at a private school in Leawood, Kansas. Angela feels very fortunate to find her skill sets have crossed paths. Utilizing her creativity to captivate and engage her students in the Spanish language.